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smallholdings

smallholdings is the plural of smallholding.

Meaning of smallholding

Noun

smallholding (plural smallholdings)

  1. A small farm.
  2. The owning of such a farm.
  3. (US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less).
    • […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8

Questions about smallholdings

What is smallholdings the plural of?
Smallholdings is the plural of smallholding.

Words near smallholdings in the dictionary

  1. smallgood
  2. smallgoods
  3. smallholder
  4. smallholders
  5. smallholding
  6. smallholdings
  7. smallie
  8. smallies
  9. smallified
  10. smallifies
  11. smallify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smallholdings (page history and authors); smallholding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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